Deltek Costpoint 8.1.20 Release Notes (Build 8.1.20.5001)


Welcome to the Deltek Costpoint 8.1.20 Release Notes, which describe the new features, enhancements, and software corrections introduced in this release.


Important NotesRegulatory EnhancementsEnhancementsSoftware Issues ResolvedSecurity EnhancementsKnown Issues


Important Notes


These release notes address all of the modules associated with Deltek Costpoint 8.1.20, some of which your firm may not use. Skip the sections that do not apply to your implementation of Deltek Costpoint.

Release notes are available from the landing page and the Costpoint Information Center. We will make a PDF available for a while, as we transition to the new format.

We want the release notes to be as easy to use as possible. To this end, we will continue to analyze and improve upon the format. If you have feedback, please email DeltekDocumentationFeedback@deltek.com.

 

Costpoint Business Intelligence 8.1.18+ and Cognos Analytics with Watson

Costpoint BI 8.1.18+ is only compatible with Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4. If you are leveraging Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, the highest version of Costpoint BI MR that you can apply is Costpoint BI 8.1.17. Note that you can continue to apply the Costpoint MRs beyond 8.1.17 regardless of which Cognos version you are deploying. Costpoint and Costpoint BI MRs are independent of each other.


Regulatory Enhancements


State


Michigan 2023 Tax Table Updates

Michigan’s 2023 withholding guide was updated to show a lower flat tax rate. The tax rate for 2023 decreases from 4.25% to 4.05%.

To support the state’s requirements, this Costpoint release updates records effective 01/01/2023 on the following screens:

Attention: For more information, refer to: 446 Michigan Income Tax Withholding Guide.

Note: This update requires patch dbc_810_11114.


Utah 2023 Tax Table Updates

Utah’s withholding guide was updated April 11 by the state tax commission, with the changes taking effect June 1, following a decrease to the state’s income tax rate. The updates are:

To support the state’s requirements, this Costpoint release adds/updates records on the following screens:

Note: This update requires patch dbc_810_11116.


Enhancements


Time & Expense

Update to Timesheet Audit Tracking

To improve tracking for auditors, when a timesheet has been re-signed or re-approved, the audit report now shows the signature and approval.


Software Issues Resolved


Accounting


Accounts Receivable >> Post Cash Receipts


Defect 1899970: When you entered and posted a reversing cash receipt for a previously posted multicurrency cash receipt, the unrealized gains/losses were not cleared. This occurred when the Compute Unrealized Gains/Losses Method was set to Net Change on the Configure Multicurrency Settings screen.


Accounts Receivable >> View Receivables and Collections


Defect 1849325: Fields in the Functional Currency Totals group box were cleared when you clicked Update Totals. This occurred when you selected the Include Finance Charge Info and/or Include Zero Balance Invoices checkbox and selected either the All or At Least option. 

 

As a workaround, scroll through the records in the Accounts Receivable History table window, or use Query or Find to filter records before you click Update Totals.


Cash Management >> Adjust Currency Balances


Defect 1866956: When you revalued currency balances, the revaluation amounts were calculated incorrectly. This occurred due to incorrect Functional Currency Balances when you used Detail view.


Admin


Security >> Manage User Suppression


Defect 1629673: The Suppress AP Tax ID checkbox was not available in the Manage User Suppression application but was available in the Manage Users application.


Workflow >> Approval Workflow Models


Defect 1903735: The fields in extensibility were not visible in Approval Screen Fields. When you added them manually, they disappeared after you saved them. And when you added them again, the following error occurred: "This record already exists. This combination of columns ('WF_KEY(Hidden)','RS_ID (Hidden)','Result Set (Screen) Id','Field Id','REV_KEY (Hidden)') must be unique."


CRM & Contracts


Contracts >> Manage Contracts


Defect 1870972: You were able to add a new rating description on the Manage Supplier Vendor Rating Descriptions screen. However, when you selected a Rating value for this description on the Supplier/Vendor Rating subtask of the Supplier/Vendor Rating tab of Manage Contracts, after saving the record, the rating remained but the rating description label/text disappeared.


Defect 1901623: You encountered a critical system error when you tried to delete an existing labor category entry on this screen. Costpoint tried to access the Planning database even if you are not licensed for Planning.


Framework


External Tools >> MONITOR


Defect 1926474: Monitoring tools perform certain checks to ensure proper deployment of Costpoint products. One of those checks is for deployment of certain web services used by PMFG. This particular check has been modified to stop verifying deployment of legacy web services.


Framework


Defect 1875754: When you used Costpoint as a progressive web app, a critical system error occurred when you selected a Recently Used value for the Line Details charge in the Start or Stop field in a timesheet.


Defect 1916253: On the Post Install Setup screen, Costpoint stalled when you tried to open the Configuration Settings subtask.


Defect 1931397: You might have received additional email notifications on all job steps when the Notify When Batch Job is Completed checkbox in Configure User Preferences was not selected and the Notify When All Job Steps Are Completed checkbox was selected on the Submit Job to Queue screen.


Defect 1935311: When you logged into Costpoint PWA using the Chrome or Safari mobile browser, your login PIN did not work.


Runtime


Defect 1921995: Support has been added for push notifications on Safari in iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4.


Runtime >> Server


Defect 1924108: When you reloaded global settings in a cluster, you received a java.lang.NullPointerException warning.


Materials


Bills of Material >> Print Summarized Bills of Material Comparison Report


Defect 1914705: When you tried to run Print Summarized Bills of Material Comparison Report and you tabbed out of the Part field, you encountered the following error: "Only Parts can be used in Bill of Material."


Engineering Change Notices >> Manage Engineering Change Notices


Defect 1917926: When you deleted an Engineering Change Notice (ECN), the ECN_PENDING_FL column in the Parts table did not change back to N even though there were no other ECNs available.


Engineering Change Notices >> Print Engineering Change Notice Impact Report


Defect 1921231: When you executed the Print Engineering Change Notice Impact Report and you had either the MBOM Assemblies or EBOM Assemblies option selected, the table space was filled up.


Inventory >> Create Physical Counts


Defect 1901673: When you generated a new count using the Action menu Create and Print Physical Count, the application did not populate the Count ID on the parameter screen.


Inventory >> Enter Issues to Project/Account/Org or PO


Defect 1917677: You were able to create a purchase order (PO) receipt and quality conrol inspection record and issue the parts using a manufacturer ID with leading or trailing spaces, but you were unable to reverse the transaction. To correct the issue, the application has been modified to suppress the validation for issue reversals.


Defect 1922502: When you tried to issue a unit of stock for a Make part with multiple revisions from a finished goods abbreviation and Allow Inventory Transactions was not selected, you encountered this error: "The following field is required: Allocated Inventory."


Inventory >> Import Inventory Transactions


Defect 1911866: When you added count data from the application and added new items with serial IDs that were the same but for different parts, the INVT_WHSE_LOC table showed a mismatched Serial_lot_key.


Inventory >> Manage Actual Counts


Defect 1914827: In Web Integration Console (WIC), when you entered a count but did not do a reconcile and clicked Save, Reconciled was set to Yes and Reconciled By and Reconciled Date/Time were autopopulated with counter data.


Inventory >> Manage Cycle Count Schedules


Defect 1914688: When you created a new cycle count schedule that would generate a hundred schedule lines, the application saved the cycle count schedule without the schedule lines.


Defect 1916199: When you created a cycle count schedule for a date range of a year, the cycle count schedules process created too many schedule sequences for some parts even though there were less parts than time.


Master Production Scheduling >> Update Master Production Schedules


Defect 1907865: The application has been updated to improve performance.


Material Requirements Planning >> Update Material Requirements Plan


Defect 1748437: The Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) process took a long time to complete.


Defect 1824653: The application has been updated to improve performance.


Defect 1893089: When you ran MRP, the process incorrectly planned across warehouses when you used substitute part planning.


Defect 1913738: When you ran an MRP full regenerate, MODIFIED_BY and TIME_STAMP in the Part table displayed a user ID from a different company.


Defect 1921197: When you ran MRP, the Suggested Due Date was the same as the manufacturing order (MO) due date, which was incorrect. So when you implemented a reschedule message, it did not appear to be updated because the suggested due date was the same as the MO due date. This issue occurred when you used the Oracle database.


Defect 1921928: In MSS, when you ran MRP and set the Lead Time Calculation to Shop Days, the application did not create a Reschedule Action Message.


Production Control >> Update Manufacturing Order Costs


Defect 1914789: When you entered a material cost, the entered value updated the MATL_CST_AMT table instead of the ML_MATL_CST_AMT field in the MO_HDR_CST table.


Production Control >> View Manufacturing Order Status


Defect 1927769: The application displayed an incorrect Make/Buy code for the manufacturing order (MO).


Purchasing >> Expedite Purchase Orders


Defect 1917752: When you added a delivery schedule to a purchase order (PO) with existing partial receipts, the application did not warn you that receipts already existed for the record.


Purchasing >> Manage Purchase Orders


Defect 1916182: In Web Integration Console (WIC), when you tried to update a PO with over 500 lines, you encountered an error.


Defect 1917742: When you added a delivery schedule to a PO with existing partial receipts, the application did not warn you that receipts already existed for the record.


Purchasing >> Print Purchase Order Change Orders


Defect 1924572: When you tried to print a purchase order change order and there were greater than 1,000 rows in the PO_LN_DOCUMENT table, you encountered an error.


Purchasing >> Print Purchase Orders


Defect 1924591: When you tried to print a PO, you encountered a NullPointerException error.


Receiving >> Manage Quality Control Inspections


Defect 1919699: When you inspected lot-tracked parts with new serial/lot numbers, you encountered this error message: "The total of the serial/lot lines' received quantities (including the serial/lot rows that were previously saved but not displayed) must equal the quantity of the receipt line."


People


Employee >> Import Employee Data


Defect 1921745: The following critical system error occurred when you uploaded a file: "The MERGE statement attempted to update or delete the same row more than once. This happens when a target row matches more than one source row. A MERGE statement cannot UPDATE/DELETE the same row of the target table multiple times. Refine the ON clause to ensure a target row matches at most one source row, or use the GROUP BY clause to group the source rows."

 

As a workaround, you can:

  1. Identify the employee that has the specified scenario.

  2. Copy that employee's record(s) into a new separate file.

  3. Delete the employee's record(s) from the original file and save the file.

  4. Upload the amended original file.


Employee Self Service >> Life Events/New Hires


Defect 1923828: You encountered the following error when you saved a new life event: "Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric." This occurred if you used the following setup:


Employee Self Service >> Manage Life Event Elections


Defect 1905800: After you ran the Activate Pending Benefit Elections process, Spouse Life and Spouse Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) benefit plans with DEP CVG (Dependent Coverage) coverage option were listed on the Manage Employee Evidence of Insurability screen. This occurred when:

The Manage Life Event Elections screen should not allow you to elect DEP CVG coverage option for dependents.


Employee Self Service >> Manage Open Enrollment Elections


Defect 1905792: After you ran the Activate Pending Benefit Elections process, Spouse Life and Spouse Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) benefit plans with DEP CVG (Dependent Coverage) coverage option were listed on the Manage Employee Evidence of Insurability screen. This occurred when:

The Manage Open Enrollment Elections screen should not allow you to elect DEP CVG coverage option for dependents.


Labor >> Export Data to Deltek Time and Expense


Defect 1921229: When the application selects data from the Project Roles table, it should not filter based on the employee's Salary information and History (EMPL_LAB_INFO) record.


Labor >> Import Timesheets from Deltek Time and Expense


Defect 1927605: When you selected to generate negative LWOP timesheet lines for Correcting timesheets, the Exclude timesheets with existing negative LWOP lines option did not work. This resulted in extra negative LWOP lines.


Labor >> Post Timesheets


Defect 1913904: When there was no PLC on the timesheet line, the default Effective Bill Date should have been based on the setup on the Configure Labor Settings screen.


Leave >> Create Quarterly Family and Medical Leave File


Defect 1896846: If you created the file for Massachusetts, the application reported the login user’s taxable entity in the file header record. In this case, the taxable entity that you specified on the screen should have been reported in the file header record.


Defect 1900268: The amounts from the employee’s Manage Employee Earnings History records for all taxable entities were reported in the R and W records. Only amounts from employee earnings records for the taxable entity that you specified on the screen should be reported in the R and W records. This issue occurred If you created the file for Massachusetts or Colorado.


Defect 1927729: The report displayed incorrect paid family and medical leave pay type earnings calculation. The application should also check if the employee has COPFML deductions and/or COPFML contributions.


Payroll >> Create Federal W-2 File


Defect 1879331: The federal wages in the Federal W-2 File Report (application report) were not zero for employees in Puerto Rico and did not match with the W-2 file (generated EFW2 file).


Payroll >> Create Quarterly SUTA Tax File


Defect 1866136: The SUTA file did not include the RS record for negative wages. The RV and RF records displayed negative amounts when there were only negative wages in the RS record.


Defect 1874483: When you created the SUTA tax file for West Virginia, the file reported gross wages instead of SUTA subject wages in S record position 50-63 (State QTR Total Gross Wages).


Defect 1874486: When you created the SUTA tax file for West Virginia, the file reported gross wages instead of SUTA subject wages in T record position 13-26 (State QTR Total Gross Wages).


Defect 1874488: When you created the SUTA tax file for West Virginia, the file reported gross wages instead of SUTA subject wages in F record position 26-40 (Total Gross Wages).


Defect 1877600: If the State UI Account Number started with a letter or special characters, incorrect values displayed in E record position 173-187 and S record position 147-161. This issue affects you if you create SUTA tax files for West Virginia.


Defect 1920402: You were unable to submit the tax file for DC (District of Columbia), which used the new file format. The tax file for DC should still use the old file format.


Payroll >> Create W-2 Table


Defect 1882131: Negative deductions/contributions on health care benefits flow through as positive to the following codes in box 12: AA, BB, C, D, DD, E, EE (or 457(B), F, G, H, K, P, R, W, and Y.


Payroll >> Manage W-2s


Defect 1927734: A comma displayed in the Employee Address 3 (Box F) field if the employee’s record on the Manage Employee Information screen did not have a city specified in the address information.


Planning


Administration >> Configuration Settings


Defect 1929655: The Task and Custom columns have been added on the Refresh Process tab.


Administration >> Report Table Update Process


Defect 1924679: You encountered refresh issues when updating posted labor actuals.


New Business Budgeting >> New Business Budgets


Defect 1925894: You encountered persistent deadlock issues.


Defect 1937409: After you upgraded to 8.1.19, you encountered revenue calculation issues when using an LLR-type formula.


Planning


Defect 1920640: An option has been added in MAM10 to include pending/approved requisitions and unreleased purchase order (PO) amounts.


Project Budgeting >> Pending Charges


Defect 1615349: The pending charges on blanket purchase orders (POs) displayed incorrect amounts.


Project Budgeting >> Project Budgets / EACs


Defect 1850073: You encountered delays when creating, committing, and approving a budget or an EAC.


Project Budgeting >> Project Status


Defect 1730191: Purchase orders (POs) with System Closed status continued to display on the Pending Charges Detail window.


Defect 1897985: The values for accounts with SALCAP function code did not display in Project Status.


Projects


Billing >> Print Billing Worksheet


Defect 1884873: When you printed the Billing Worksheet, the numbers were not displayed in full regardless of the font used.


Billing >> Print Indirect Rate Consolidated Retro Bill Worksheet


Defect 1866600: The report was not printing values in full. Amounts in millions in the last column were cut off in the report.


Subcontractor Management >> Manage Work Assignments


Defect 1863633: On the Vendor Employees subtask, when you copied a row with existing data in the Manager field (using Copy » Copy Data to Insert into Excel), created a new row, and then pasted the copied data (using Copy » Paste Data from Excel), an error occurred upon saving.

As a workaround, save the record twice. You can also use the Copy Data to Paste into New Record(s) function.


Defect 1890131: You encountered a critical system error when you performed the following steps:

  1. Create a new record.

  2. Create another record without closing the application.

  3. Enter or select a value in Work Assignment Approval Code for the newer record.

As a workaround, close the screen and re-open it to enter the next record.


Defect 1907436: On the Vendor Employees subtask, when you entered multiple records with different vendor IDs, the Vendor Employee Name values were correctly displayed. Upon saving, however, the Vendor Employee Name in the succeeding lines changed to the same name as in the first line.


Reports & Analytics


Business Intelligence >> Business Intelligence


Defect 1815879: The Refresh All Dimensional Data Sets job failed when it processed the Planning Projects data.


Defect 1842714: The Supplier Performance Dashboard displayed incorrect data, such as missing receipt transactions.


Defect 1850152: An error occurred when the Resource Management Data Set located in Company Content » Smart AI » Data Sets » Resource Management Data was processed. This defect affects Costpoint BI Oracle database users.


Defect 1850208: An error occurred when the Effective User Rights report was generated. This defect affects Costpoint BI Oracle database users.


Defect 1906941: The Smart AI Executive Dashboard figures did not match with the values in Costpoint and with the Executive Dashboard in Team Content.


Dashboards >> My Approval Tasks


Defect 1757278: In My Approval Tasks (WFATODO), approval tasks from other companies were available in another company.


Time & Expense


Expense >> Expense Authorization


Defect 1916851: The pre-submit stored procedure was displayed every time you saved after the submit action was invoked. This should be displayed only once per submission.

 

Affected Applications

Defect No.

Expense Report

1926103


Expense >> Expense Report


Defect 1913625: When an expense report was rejected by a primary supervisor, the other tasks in the workflow were also removed.


Defect 1914256: When you opened an expense report in Pro mode, you received a system error.


Defect 1914845: The Approve button was enabled when a primary supervisor selected multiple tasks in the expense report workflow after selecting a single task to approve.


Defect 1914854: Anyone with a role in the expense report workflow was allowed to approve the record task.


Defect 1916847: You were able to select a charge that was not valid for the expense report from the list of recently used charges.


Time >> Daily Floor Check


Defect 1921971: The Daily Floor Check application will now use the new asynchronous sending of other emails.


Time >> Timesheet


Defect 1834861: The Entered and Prorated labels were misaligned with their corresponding radio buttons.


Defect 1862912: Because users with primary supervisory roles were only recognized when the Approve Timesheet task was launched from the home dashboard, that role did not receive approval tasks previously approved by a backup supervisor.


Defect 1918389: The system allowed for negative lunch hours to be recorded in the timesheet.


Time >> Timesheet Status


Defect 1921983: The Timesheet Status application will now use the new asynchronous sending of other emails.


Time >> Work Schedule/Leave


Defect 1928813: You encountered a system error when End Time was blank.

 

Affected Applications

Defect No.

Resource Schedules/Leave

1928816

Company Work Schedules

1928817


Security Enhancements

There are no security enhancements or security issues addressed in this release.


Known Issues

Smart AI Assistant

You cannot run the Smart AI Assistant for Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4 on Chrome or Microsoft Edge. Use Mozilla Firefox as your web browser.

Failed Execution of Scheduled Reports in Costpoint BI

If you have a report that is scheduled to run frequently during the day, succeeding runs may stop unexpectedly. As a workaround, you can do a manual run of the report and then reschedule the next execution.

This issue has been reported to IBM.

Unable to Set BI Reports as Homepage

You cannot set a Costpoint BI report as the homepage when its Run with full interactivity field is set to Yes. As a workaround, set Run with full interactivity to No.

This issue has been reported to IBM.

Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4 Upgrade

For more details about the changes that occurred after the Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.4 upgrade, see KB Article 112714.


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